I have a WDTV Gen 2 running 1.01.77-WDLXTV-G2-0.4.5.3 [flash] firmware, and a TP-Link TL-WN821N Ver:2.8 USB Wifi Dongle with VID/PID v0CF3p1002 (listed as supported by the arusb_lnx driver). I have created a net.config and placed it on the root of a 8GB FAT32 USB stick, net .config is as follows:

At the start the Wifi stick turns on the green led (solid light) and after a few seconds the led starts flashing but It never links to my AP (Dlink DWL-2000AP+ Firmware Version: 2.12). I have seen the AP's Log and the Wifi stick doesn't try to link or to negotiate with the AP never. I have tried the same wifi stick in a PC running Ubuntu 10.10 and It works perfect, good quality signal, good speed and a stable connection. I have also tried with "network-device-detector" and with "DHCP=yes" but I get the same results.

Hello,i've basically the same problem: same wdtv g2 and wifi dongle but newer firmware 0.4.7.3 . I have no chance to check if my AP get the DHCP broadcast signal from the usb stick, but the behavior is the same: led on usb device is blinking but no ip address is released from AP.